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# A Timeline of Fingerprint Firsts - 221 B.C. - 220 A.D. The Chinese were the first culture known to use friction ridge impressions as a means of identification. - 1684. Friction ridge skin is first described in detail by Nehemiah Grew. - 1687. Marcello Malpighi is credited with being the first to...

# A Timeline of Fingerprint Firsts - 221 B.C. - 220 A.D. The Chinese were the first culture known to use friction ridge impressions as a means of identification. - 1684. Friction ridge skin is first described in detail by Nehemiah Grew. - 1687. Marcello Malpighi is credited with being the first to use the microscope to study the skin. - 1788. J. C. A. Mayer is the first to write that friction ridge skin is unique. - 1856-1897. Herman Welcker is the first person to start a permanence study. Although, Sir William James Herschel is generally credited for being the first person to study persistence of friction ridge skin. - 1858. Herschel's spontaneous printing of a man's hand as proof of identity is the first official use of friction ridge skin as a signature by a European. - 1880. Henry Faulds is the first to publish in a scientific journal the value of friction ridge skin for individualization. - 1883. Arthur Kollman is the first to identify the presence of volar pads on hands and feet.